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"New allegations of plagiarism by senior academic staff" - The Times Higher, November 23
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Alan Ryan - 'No governance device will work ..
'No governance device will work when people don't pay sufficient attention and when they defer to the executive'. The sentiment that Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring reportedly expressed whenever...
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Oxford ignores alumni, claims Shadow Chancellor
He is one of Oxford's most high-profile graduates and expects one day to control the purse strings of Government, yet George Osborne says his main contact with his alma mater is through a magazine...
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On the subject of research .. 1
One danger with any measurement is that the activity of measurement influences the activity being measured. One potential source of such influence in the proposed Higher Education Funding Council for...
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On the subject of research .. 2
It has been suggested that citations should be counted over five years or ten years, but it should be longer. It can take a year between submission and publication in quality journals. A paper that...
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On the subject of research .. 3
If you are compiling a list of problems and injustices relating to RAE 2008, may I offer the following: I have a paper in the January 2001 issue of a journal that is ineligible for entry because it...
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On the subject of research .. 4
Hefce says that "it will be reasonable to measure relative levels of excellence on a common basis once normalisation by field has been performed". This assumes the instigation of a metrics-based RAE...
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A complex business
The story on Amanda Goodall's research ("Scholar v-cs score best", October 26), Terence Keeley's opinion article ("Emmanuel lights way on self-governance", October 19) and the story on John Hood's...
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Mind your language 1
Bruce Macfarlane ("Teaching Matters", November 23) is dead right in saying that lecturing is not the same as teaching. The Open University did away with lecturing more than 30 years ago but has still...
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Mind your language 2
The problem with Michael Bulley's attack on linguistics ("Chomskyans chase down a blind alley", November 16) comes at the end of the second paragraph. It's the phrase "non-specialist". Linguistics...
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Mind your language 3
It is well known that in 1866 the Linguistic Society of Paris declared that it wanted to hear nothing more about the origin of language. Michael Bulley wants to go further and hear nothing more about...
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Hungry for justice
The spectre of starvation in 1930s Britain was a spur to the creation of the postwar welfare state until it was called into question by the 'new Right' in the 1970s. James Vernon steps back in time....
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The devil inside
Are some people innately duplicitous, self-serving and evil? Based on the latest developments in neuroscience - and the experience of her own unscrupulous sister - Barbara Oakley argues that they are...
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Dr Dai Llemmer
A reader writes : Data protection issues preclude self-nomination at this stage in the process, Dai, but your input would be appreciated regarding a personnel interaction issue. I am facing a number...
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Enrich yourself, and the world
I have been in favour of making research an integral part of learning ever since having an inspiring experience of independent research during my own undergraduate years. When I started actively...